Manifolding-pad.



E. K. BOTTLE.

MANIFOLDING PAD.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10, 1907.

Patented July 20, 1909.

g INVENTOH A770, A/EYS.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD KIiiBY BOTTLE, or NIAGARAFAIiLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR To THE CARTER- ORUME COMPANY, LIMITED, or NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF- cANADA.

MANIFOLDING-PAD.

Patented July 20, 1909.

Application filed January 10, 1907. Serial No. 351,661.

To all whom it may concern:

do it known that I, EnwAiu) K. BOTTLE, residmg at Niagara Falls, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements-in Manifolding-Pads, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

This invention relates to manifolding pads, sales-books and the like, and one of the objects thereof is to provide a device of the above character characterized by case and convenience of manipulation. Another object is to construct a book .or pad of the manifolding type such that the manipulation of the transfer sheet may be accomplished without soiling or smutting thefingers.

A further object contemplated is to construct a book wherein the original and duplicate leaves are folded one upon another in zigzag fashion and known in the trade asa continuous book, in a manner such that when manipulated all danger of the operain perspective showing the same. Fig. 2 is- -a plan View showingthe manner in which the leaves whichconstitute the pad are cut away. Fig. 1s a view in perspective of the device, showing a slightly different embodi ment thereof. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig; 2 but showing the leaves employed in the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 3.

Similar reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings. j Referring now to shown in Fig. 1 a relatively stifi' backlng member 2, to'which in the present instance is hinged a cover the drawings, there is ad I having a rigid ormember 3. The leaves of pad 1' in the presout instance are formed from a continuous strip of paper folded in zigzag fashion, each fold being located between adjacent leaves or between each duplicate leaf and the preceding and succeeding original leaves. The underneath leaf of the pad is secured to the backing by suitable means, as by staples or by means of an adhesive substance, the over lying sheets being left free. Secured to the backing member 2 and adapted to overlie the pile of leaves and to be inserted between the leaves which constitute each pair of original and duplicate slips is a transfer member 4, herein shown as constitutedby a carbon sheet.

The pad above described is of the well known continuous-type, and at this point it may be noted that heretofore considerable difliculty has been encountered in manipulating this type of pad owing to the fact. that no means have been provided which will enable the operator to conveniently grasp the pad when the slips are being removed therefrom or when it, is desired to inter ose the carbon sheet between a fresh pair of original and duplicate slips. This defect is in herent in this form of pad by reason of the fact that the leaves are left entirely free throughout their entire extent, and any grasped by the thumb of the operator, the I sheets being left entirely free. In the embodiment of my invention disclosed herein I have provided one of these fixed portlons or blocks at each upper corner of the pad, but it will be understood that but one of these blocks need be provided and, at any desired location. In order that the pad may be manipulated without danger of SOllll'lg or smutting the fingers, the transfer sheet is cutaway above the blocks, as at 7, thus exposing said blocks and forming a notch through which the thumb of the operator passes when manipulating the pad.

gage respectively the back of the pad and the fixed portion. The uppermost leaf may then be raised by grasping the same with the' fingers of the right hand, whereupon the transfer sheet will fall upon the next succeeding or duplicatewleaf, after which the raised original leaf may be allowed to fall upon the back of the transfer sheet. The pad isnow in condition to receive any suitable inscription, which will be transferred upon the duplicate leaf. The uppermost leaf is then grasped by the thumb and fingers of the right hand and swung outwardly, and then pulled outwardly to withdraw the duplicate leaf from beneath the transfer sheet, which operation will compel the next succeeding original leaf to be likewise withdrawn from beneath the transfer sheet. The original and duplicate leaves uponwhich the inscription has been written are then detached from said succeeding'original leaf, and the latter leaf allowed to fall upon the transfer sheet, which is now lying upon the next succeeding duplicate leaf. Substantially this same operation-may be performed with each pair of original and duplicate leaves throughout the pad. It will be seen that inasmuch as the transfer sheet is cut away to expose the fixed portion which is grasped by the fingers of the operator, a firm grasp may be obtained upon the book without bringing the fingers in contact with said sheet, the construction being such that it is not necessary to handle the same during any stage of themanipulation of the pad.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a pad of the above type characterized by increased simplicity and eflicieney, and one which may be manipulated without soiling The leaves or smutting of the fingers. are preferably cut away at the u per or unused portions thereof, and there ore the efficiency of the pad is in no wise diminished, and 'moreover, the leaves at their upper portions eing connected by weakened lines of a leng h less than the 'width of' the pad,

they may with greater ease be detached from each other.

While I have shown my invention as applied to a sales-book or pad of the continuoustype, it will be clearly apparent that backing to pads of other types and still retain the advantages sought to be attained herein.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above descrip tion or shown in the accompanyingdrawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a hnntmgsense.

Having descrlbed my invention, What I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the class described, a backing, a pad comprising a pile of attach'ed sheets secured to said backing, a portion being cut away from the body of the pad to form a block and secured to said back ing, and an overlying carbon sheet having a portion cut away to expose said block.

2. In a device of the class described, a backing, a pad comprising a pile of sheets secured to said backing, said pad being provided with a notch which extends transversely therethrough, and a member located in said notch and secured to said backing adapted to be grasped by the operator when the pad is manipulated.

3. In a device of the class described, a backing, a pad comprising a pile of sheets secured to said backing, a portion of each of said sheets being cut away and the porrality of sheets secured to said backing member, a portion of each of said sheets being cut away the portions thereof cut away being secured to said backing member, and

a transfer member overlying said pad andhaving a portion thereof cut away to expose the cutaway portions of said sheets.

6. In a device of the class described, a backing a pad comprising a pile of leaves detachably connected together and connected to said backing, a portion of each of said leaves being severed therefrom near its edges and permanently secured to the backing.

7. In a device of the class described, a apad comprising a plurality of leaves detachably connected together and attached tosaid backing, a portion of each of said'leav es near the edges thereof being severed therefrom andpermanently secured to the backing, and a transfer sheet overlying said leaves and adapted to be inserted therebet-ween, said transfer sheet having a portion thereof cut away to expose the severed portions of said leaves.

8. In a device of the class described, a backing a pad comprising; a plurality of sheets secured to said backing. at least one corner of each of said sheets being severed therefrom, said severed portion being secured to the backing and forming a permanent portion of the pad.

9. In a device of the class described, a backing a pad comprising a plurality of leaves secured to said backing. at least one corner of each of said leaves being severed therefrom and secured to the backin and a transfer sheet overlying said pad and adapted to be inserted between the leaves thereof, said transfer sheet having a portion cut away to expose the severed portions of said leaves.

10. In a device of the class described, a backing a pad comprising a pile of sheets secured to said backing, an upper corner of each of said sheets bein -severed therefrom and permanently secured to the backing.

11. In a device of the class described, a

backing a pad comprising a plurality of sheets secured to said backing,can upper corner of each of said sheets being severed therefrom and permanently secured to said backing, and a transfer sheet overlying said pad and having an upper corner thereof cut away to expose the severed portions of 'said sheets.

Y 12. In a device of the class described, a backing a pad comprising a pile of leaves folded in zigzag form and secured to said backing and having a notch extending transversely through the body of the pad, and a member secured to said backing-and located within said notch.

13. In a device of the class described, a backing a pad comprisinga pile of leaves folded in zigzag form and secured to said backing, a portion of said pad being severed therefrom and permanently secured to said backing, said severed portion being adapted to be grasped when the pad is manipulated;

14. Ina device of the class described, a backing a pad comprising a pile of leaves folded in zigzag form and secured to said backing, said pad having a notch extendin transversely therethrough, a member secuIed to said backing and located within said notch, and a transfer sheet secured to said pad and overlyingthe same, said transfer sheet having a portion thereof to expose said member.

15. In a device of the class described, 'a'

backing member a pad comprising a plurality of leaves folded in'zigzagform and secured to said backing member, a portion of each of said leaves being entirely severed cut away I .leaves to form finger-gripping means, and a folded in zigzag form and connected to one another along weakened lines, a portion of each of said leaves adjacent one end of said pad being severed therefrom and secured to said backing.

17. In a device of the class described, a backing a pad-comprising a pile of leaves folded in zigzag form and connected to one another along weakened lines, portions of each of said leaves adjacent one end of said pad being severed therefrom and secured to said backing, and a transfer sheet overlying said leaves, said transfer sheet having a portion thereof removed to expose the severed portions 'of said leaves.

18. In a device of the class described, a backing a pad comprising a plurality of leaves folded in zigzag form and connected to one another along weakened lines, the inner leaf thereof being secured to said backing, an upper corner of .each of said leaves being severed therefrom and secured to said backing, and a transfer sheet overlying. said leaves and adapted to be inserted therebetween, said transfer sheet having a portion thereof removed to expose the severed portions of said leaves, whereby said severed portions may be grasped and the pad manipulated without soiling the fingers of the operator.

19. In a device of the class described, a backin member, and a. pad comprising a pile of sheets detachably secured together and attached to said backing member, a portion of each of said sheets being severed and secured to said backing member adjacent the remaining portions-of said sheets to form finger grippingmeans.

20. In a device of the class described, a backing, and a pad comprising a pile of leaves folded in zigzag fashion and secured to said backing, a portion of each of said being severed and secured to said backin adjacent the; remaining portions of sai transfer sheet overlying said leaves and cut away to expose said finger gripping means.

22. A device of the class described comprising a backing member, a pile of sheets secured to said backing member, a portion backing, a portion of' each of said leaves of each of said sheets being cut away, and said cut-away portions being secured together and attached to said backing to form a finger gripping means, and a transfer sheet overlying said pile of sheets and having a portion cutaway to expose the cut-away portions of said sheets. p

23. In a device of the class described, a pad comprising a pile of leaves attached-"to one another, a finger gripping member in juxtaposition to said pad, and a. transfer sheet secured to said pad and adapted to be inserted between said leaves and having a cut away portion to expose said finger gripping member.

24.111 a device of the class described, a pad comprising a pile of leaves attached to one another, a back to which said pad is secured. a finger gripping member secured to said back in juxtaposition to said pad and a transfer sheet secured to said pad and adapted to be inserted between said leaves and having a ent away portion to expose said finger gripping member.

In testimoiry whereof I afiix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

EDVARD KIRBY BOTTLE.

\Vitnesses JOHN R. DICKSON Gno. D. CAMPBELL. 

